CVE-2018-12698

Summary

CVECVE-2018-12698
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-23 23:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
Descriptiondemangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04.4 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04.4 All All All
Application Gnu Binutils 2.30 All All All
Application Gnu Binutils 2.30 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-4326-1: libiberty vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201908-01) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
85454 – Multiple memory corruptions in objdump / C++ name demangler (binuitils-2.30-15ubuntu1) MISC gcc.gnu.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
23057 – Multiple memory corruptions in objdump (binuitils-2.30-15ubuntu1) MISC sourceware.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
USN-4336-1: GNU binutils vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Bug #1763102 “Multiple memory corruptions in objdump (binuitils-...” : Bugs : binutils package : Ubuntu MISC bugs.launchpad.net Exploit, Third Party Advisory
GNU libiberty CVE-2018-12698 Memory Corruption Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710158 Gentoo Linux Binutils Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201908-01)
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